Language Benefits of Nursery Rhymes
Sep 07, 2020What is a Nursery Rhyme?
🎶 Short songs and verses for children
🥁 Marked by rhythm and rhyme
✌🏽 Include lullabies, fingerplays, counting-out rhymes, riddles, games, songs, and ballads
🖋 Authors are often anonymous
👨🏽🦳 Often passed orally from generation to generation
🇬🇧 From many countries -- especially Britain
💂🏻♀️ Many contain references to historical and political events
📚Date back as far as the 13th century, but were first published in volumes in the 18th century with Tommy Thumb’s Songbook and Mother Goose Melody.
Let’s talk about language development: We’ll be singing nursery rhymes for you today, but even spoken nursery rhymes are fun and provide great benefits. Through repetition, children begin processing the way vowels and consonants come together to make words. They also start making sense of inflection and rhythm in spoken language.
We have two songs to share with you that we think you’ll love. First you’ll see Elizabeth introducing “Hey Diddle Diddle” to her daughter Charlotte -- this nursery rhyme is just one example of a perfect starting point for language development in our little ones. It’s short, it rhymes, and the images are just so silly that they are easy to remember and fun to repeat.
Would you like the list of our favorite Nursery Rhymes, grab the printable here.
Check out a video of us sharing another favorite, "Wind the Bobbin Up," here.
Listen to our podcast episode 4 to hear Ms. Elizabeth and Forte the Lion share a few nursery rhymes and two movements of Bizet's "Children's Games."
